This effectively means that Gill, who took over both the Test and ODI captaincy from Rohit last year, is the biggest upwards mover in the list.
Going by the players in the two lists, the BCCI seems to have combined Grades A and B from the 2024-25 list into a single middle tier for 2025-26, Category B. Judged this way, Washington has moved up a tier.
There are no newly contracted players, with the overall men’s list trimmed from 34 players to 30. Senior fast bowler Mohammed Shami, who was in Grade A in the 2024-25 list, and Sarfaraz Khan, Rajat Patidar and Mukesh Kumar (all Grade C) have dropped out of the current list.
The BCCI has not revealed the payscales for the three contract categories.
List of BCCI-contracted players for 2025-26
Category A: Shubman Gill, Jasprit Bumrah, Ravindra Jadeja.
Category B: Washington Sundar, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Mohammed Siraj, Hardik Pandya, Rishabh Pant, Kuldeep Yadav, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Suryakumar Yadav, Shreyas Iyer.
Category C: Axar Patel, Tilak Varma, Rinku Singh, Shivam Dube, Sanju Samson, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Akash Deep, Dhruv Jurel, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakravarthy, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Abhishek Sharma, B Sai Sudharsan, Ravi Bishnoi, Ruturaj Gaikwad.
